Johann Heinrich Hartleben, his wife Johanna, son (Johann [Jakob], age 6), and [step-]children (Johann [Meier], age 18; Franz [Meier], age 14) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 26 August 1766 aboard a snow-brig named Die Jäger (The Hunter) under the command of Skipper Gabriel Will.
Heinrich Hartleber [sic], a farmer, his wife Dorothea, and son Heinrich Jakob (age 8) are recorded on an appendix to the 1767 census of Boisroux in Household No. 33 along with Dorothea's sons from a previous marriage (Heinrich Meier, age 18; Franz Joseph Meier, age 15). [See Meier Family.]
The 1798 census of Schaffhausen records single Jakob Hartleben from Meinhard in Household No. Sh49.
The Oranienbaum passenger list does not record from where the Hartleben family came. The 1767 census records that Heinrich Hartleber [sic] came from the German village of Clausthal.
There are no known surviving male lines of this Hartleben family among the Volga German colonies.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 34.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 863.
- Mai, Brent Alan. 1798 Census of the German Colonies along the Volga: Economy, Population, and Agriculture (Lincoln, NE: American Historical Society of Germans from Russia, 1999): Sh49.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 1 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 1999): 168.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #7012.
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